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...looks like Lazarus." Young Tunney again advanced his right fist. Gibbons twisted his torso with a curious jerk, sat down, bewildered, like a man overtaken by exhaustion. The referee counted ten. After the fight, Tunney glanced through a pile of congratulatory telegrams, went off to Long Island for a week-end of golfing and light revelry; Gibbons packed his suitcases, boarded a broiling train for Chicago where his wife lies ill of nervous prostration. "Now I want Dempsey!" declared Tunney in the press. Undoubtedly, if Champion William Harrison Dempsey returns to the ring, Tunney will be his opponent, for Champion...
...There are very few courses given on Saturday and consequently students may go away over the week-end. Paris is about four hours in the train, while Strassburg, Metz, and Verdun, are within two hours motoring distance. In the winter time a jaunt of 70 kilometers will take one to the Vosges mountains, where there are excellent winter sports...
...receive 800 disabled War veterans. ¶President Coolidge left the White House one morning to call at the home of Secretary of War Weeks, who has been ill for the last two months. Shortly afterward, Mr. Weeks departed for his native Massachusetts. The President reported 1) that Mr. Weeks appeared to be doing well, 2) that he had not resigned, 3) that he expected to return to active duty in September. ¶Mr. Coolidge consented, last week, to the establishment of a "President's Cup" for the winner of the annual swimming contest of the Washington Canoe Club...
...University management is exerting itself to make the week-end a notable one for the visitors. Headquarters for the visiting teams will be established at the Varsity Club. On Friday evening, supper will be served for the out of town teams in Smith Halls Common Room. On Saturday, breakfast and lunch will be served, and at 1.45 the schedule of events will start in the Stadium. The last event will be run off by 3.35, following which the school boys will be given tickets for the Princeton meet, which will start immediately after the Interscholastic meet is finished...
...University golf team ended its New York week-end unscathed, after defeating Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton in quick succession...